[175300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Oct 19 10:33:30 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 19 Oct 2014 14:32:59 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUJPspYz=GDRMYFaP-WOOfhODcC8=B4g_J4h7LQyV+JLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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>The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria
>that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible. I
>believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace,
>then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on
>country; the internet is global and .GOV and .EDU are in Global
>Namespace.
Gee, someone should alert NANOG management that the list has fallen
through a wormhole into 1996.
To answer the original question, many governments use a subdomain
of their ccTLD such as gc.ca or gov.uk. Or they just use a
name directly in the ccTLD such as bundesregierung.de.
R's,
John
